Wheel-harrow



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

0. LA DOW. J. J. BUDLONG 8n L. P. HOYT.

WHEEL HARROW.

No. 338,086. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

WITNESSES v I N VLJV TORS Charles Luz/Dow w By their flttorneya Q 7 I(No Model.) 2 sneetssheet 2. 0. LA DOW, J. .J. BUDLONG & L. PLHOYT.

WHEEL HARIROW.

No. 338,086. Patented Mar, 16, 1886.

WITNESSES W 0/ N PEYERS Phomunw nmr. Wumn nm. DC.

NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

CHARLES LA DOlV, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK, AND J. JEROME BUDLONG AND LUCIUSP. HOYT, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

WHEEL-HARROW.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,086, dated March16, 1886.

Application filed O.tob r9, 1882. Serial No. 73.816. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES LA DOW, of the city and county of Albany,in the State of New York, and J. JEROME BUDLONG and LUGIUS P. HoY'r, ofAurora, in the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in \Vheel-Harrows, of which thefollowing is a specification.

One object of our invention is to enable the driver to employ his feetin varying or controlling the lateral motion of the swinging frame andthe disk gangs attached to the frame, and this end we attain byattaching an adjustable foot-pad to the top and near the end of each ofthe main beams of the swinging frame.

Another object of our invention is to vary vertically the inclination ofthe disks to the surface of the ground, so as to cause the disks to cutinto the ground deeper or shallower next to the plants which are beingcultivated. The accompanying drawings represent all our improvements asembodied in one machine in the best way now known to us.

Obviously the details of construction of the several parts may be variedin various equivalent well-known ways without departing from the spiritof our invention. Some of the parts may also be used without the others,and in machines differing in construction from that herein shown.

Figure l is a top view of the machine, looking from the rear, with theoperators seat 3 5 removed, so as to show the parts more clearly,

"and with the tongue part of the carryingframe elevated, showing twocarrying-wheels,

A A, mounted on an elevated or crank axle,

with a carrying-frame made V-shaped of two beams bolted to the axle attheir rear ends,

and converging to the front, where they are bolted together, and alsoshowing the swinging frame attached to the carrying-frame by means of anevener bar, and showing the 5 disk-gangs and the attachments and adjustments of the gangs and swinging frame. Fig.

2 is a top view, looking from the rear, of one half of the U-shaped yokeor curved crossbar which connects the two main beams of the swingingframe, a part of the right-hand beam of the swinging frame, the extremerear end of which with the footpad thereon has been removed to show moreclearly the disk-gang and shaft beneath. It shows the grooved or notchedbeveled washer between the yoke and beam of the swinging frame wherethey are clamped together. It shows the relative position of thedisk-gang to these parts when the notched beveled washer is in oneadjustment. The dotted lines represent the same parts and theirpositions relatively to each other when the notched beveled washer is inanother adjustment of which it is capable. Fig. 3 represents the top ofthe notched beveled washer in perspective, showing a bev eled groove inthe washer running from right to left in the figure and a bevel-grooverun ning from top to bottom in the figure. Fig. 4 represents the extremerear end of the righthand beam of the swinging frame with the adjustablefootpad. The dotted lines represent some of the adjustments the foot-padis capable of.

The main or carrying frame, which in this instance consists of twobeams, C O, converging forward from the wheel-axle B B in the shape of aV, has firmly fastened to it a cross piece, 0*, at a proper distance infront of the wheel-axle, and upon this cross-piece we mount anevener-bar, which in this instance is attached to the under or lowerside of the crosspiece, as b in Fig. 1, by a swivel-bolt, in the usualway, and this bolt also forms the fastening for one end of each of thebrace-rods 0a or, which diverge laterally to the carrying-beams, towhich they are fastened at a proper distance forward of the cross-piece.The evener-baris perforated with holes vertically at equal dis tancesapart, by means of which the forward ends of the beams of the swingingframe G G can be coupled to it by hooks or plates with pins or bolts inthe ordinary manner; but we have shown here, Fig. 1, bent plates, theone extending from the top of the evener-bar to the top of theswingingframe beam, and the other extending from the lower side of theevener-bar to the lower side of the swingingframe beam,theplates beingbolted to the beam and to the evener-bar; and between the crosspiece 0and the ev-ener-bar b we show a plate, E, to allow the evener-bar andits attachments free play without interfering with the crosspiece Thehorizontal beams of the swinging frame are connected at a pointintermediate their length by the usual U-shaped or curved yoke, G andthe yoke and beams are clamped together with hasps or other wellknownmeans. To these beams, and at alittle distance in the rear of the yoke,are fastened regulated distances apart, that when these ends are movednearer together or farther apart on the evener-bar these beams willactlikelevers with fulcrums at the points where they are clamped to theyoke G", and the disk-gangs will he moved laterally across the line ofcut, and thus the cutting angle of the disks transversely to the line ofcut will be changed or varied. It is also obvious that, the beams of theswinging frame being clamped to a rigid yoke and being fastened to theevener-bar,the parts of the swinging frame as a whole willbe heldtogether firmly and rigidly while the machine is in operation, andconsequently its various connections will not be racked apart readily,and yet the different adjustments that the parts of the swinging frameare capable of can readily be effected.

Each of the two main beams of the swinging frame are shown connected tothe axle of the carrying-frame by means of chains, one chain beingattached to the axle B B at some place near the wheel A, and the otherchain being in like manner fastened near the wheel A, asin f andf inFig. 1, and the loose ends of the two chains being held in notches ofthe claws .K K, with which the beams of the swinging frame arerespectively provided.

Each chain can readily and easily be lengthened or shortened by slippinga different link along its length into the claw provided for it, and bythis means the extent of the lateral play or motion of the swingingframe can be limited and the disk-gangs be prevented from swinginglaterally so far as to cut or injure the carrying-wheels or to tear upor injure the row of plants being cultivated.

We have shown in Fig. l the chains ff caught and heldin the claws K Kand fastened to the axle B B at the extensions of the axle which projectvertically below the hubs of wheels A A; The disk-gangs are mounted onshafts or posts, which are made in two parts, notched, male and female,pressed together with a screw. The upper parts of the shafts P P areeach provided with twonotches, (see Figs. 1 and 2, p p,) runningdiametrically from front to rear across their lower faces, and the lowerpart of the shaft is provided with a feather running diametricallyacross its upper face to fit the notches in the upper half or upper partof the shaft. In this instance the lower part of the shaft hasprojecting from it a vertical spindle or rod, which runs up through acorresponding cylindrical hole in the upper part of the shaft, asthrough a sleeve, and which is provided with a screwthread and nut, ait. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) The upper part of the shaft is fixed by aclamping-plate that fits the lower side of the swinging-frame beam, soit will not turn when the parts arepressed together. There is also aclamping-plate to correspond on the top of the beam. The spindle fromthe lower or male part of the shaft Q Q, Fig. 1, passes up through thefemale part of the shaft P P, as through a sleeve, and also through thebeam of the swinging frame and the plates, and is screwed up by the nutn n, in the usual manner, drawing the feather s of the male part Q Qinto the notches p or pof the female part l?v P, according to theadjustment required, and so holding thedisk-gang mounted onthe lowerpart of the shaft firmly in a position at an angle transversely with theline of out. It is obvious that when the nut is loosened the lower partof the shaft Q Q and the gang attached can readily be rotated axially soas to laterally about the bolt as a pivot, or held firmly to the beam,and so be adjusted to suit the convenience of the driver. To the forwardpart of this heel-plate we pivot or bolt a curved toe-plate or benttoe-plate, which can be freely rotated about the bolt as an axis. Bymeans of this foot-pad, in two parts, readily adjustable, so as to beset in a position most convenient for the drivers foot, or to be allowedto play freely, the driver can control with his feet the lateral motionof the swinging frame and direct the same.

The two main beams of thesw-inging frame are connected by means of theordinary curved or V-shaped yoke, G,and we insert between the beams andthe arms of the yoke grooved and beveled washers d d. The washer hasabevel groove, 1.2, diametrically across its surface,

Fig. 3, and at right angles to this a groove, beveled, 3 4, both groovesbeing, of awidth to receive the yoke. The flat under surface of thewasher rests on the top of the beam of the swinging frame, and the yokerests in one or the other of these'grooves, and the whole is clampedtogether in the usual well-known ways. Obviously the washer serves,according to its adjustment, (see'Fig. 2,) toturn or rotate I axiallyout of its horizontal the beam of the swinging frame on which it rests,and serves, consequently, to cause the disk-gang and shaft to flareoutward or inward relatively to the horizontal of' the yoke, so that thedisk-gang The heel-piece face the cutting-disks inwardly or outwardlyIIS will hang from the swing-frame beam laterally outward or inward at avertical angle with the level of the yoke andwith thelevel of the earth,and so when the machine is in operation the disks will cut deeper orshallower near the line of plants, according to the tilt of the gangs asadjusted by the washers.

The mode of operation of our improvements in wheel-harrows of the classabove specified and the advantages attained by the organization of themechanism herein recorded will be obvious to those skilled in the artfrom the foregoing description without further explanation.

The disk-gangs are shown connected to the swinging frame; but when it isnot desired to use a swinging frame the disk-gangs may be connecteddirectly to the yoke with the capacity for the adjustments described.

\Ve claim as our invention- 1. The adjustable foot-pad made in twoparts, one a heel-piece pivoted so that it can be moved freelylaterally, and the other a toe piece pivoted to the heel-piece so thatthe toepiece can be moved on its pivot independently of the heel-piece,in combination with the swinging-frame beams, whereby the driver isenabled while in his seat readily to vary, eontrol, or regulatewith hisfeet the lateral movements of the swinging frame.

2. The combination of a pole, an arched yoke-frame, a gang of disksconnected with the yoke-frame and capable of being rocked vertically tovary the inclination of the disks to the surface of the ground, andmeans for holding the gang in such adjusted positions relatively to theyoke-frame.

3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of theswinging-frame beams, the arched or V-shaped yoke, the graduated orbeveled notched washer, and the clamps for adjusting and clamping theparts together, in order to so adjust and hold the disk-gangs that theywill cut deeper or shallower next to the plants that are beingcultivated.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

OHARLESLA DOW. J. JEROME BUDLONG. LUOIUS P. HOYT. Witnesses as toCharles La Dow:

RICHARD P. DUMARY, ELIAS G. ROBERTS. Witnesses as to Budlong and Hoyt:

CHARLES L. HOYT, LEONARD B. REYNoLDs.

